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and again in these pages I would set down a few paragraphs 

 on certain shrubs which we owe to that land. The history of 

 Japanese shrubs already familiar to American gardens can never 

 be too often repeated, nor can the new introductions be too 

 often brought to the attention of our amateurs. For as the 

 great collectors (such as E. H. Wilson) go oftener to Japan and 

 China, as their own findings and choosings become more rarely 

 beautiful, just so much more interest and enthusiasm for these 

 Asiatic subjects are bound to develop among amateiu* gardeners 

 everywhere. Read Aristocrats of the Garden^ by Mr. Wilson; 

 get the Bulletins of the Arnold Arboretum. How few people, 

 comparatively speaking, have made collections of Japanese 

 cherries! And now I mean people with ground sufficient for 

 the purpose. Experiment, say I. Try these new things. Grow 

 them from seed, or secure tiny trees from any one of the several 

 sources available. Do not continue to grow common elder, 

 sumac, goldenrod in vast quantities for screens or boimdary 

 plantings when these other less familiar things remain to astonish 

 and delight. The confines of the mind, as well as of the eye, will 

 be enlarged by the use of plants, trees and shrubs from other 

 countries; and a wealth of blooming bough and richly colored 

 autumn fruit may be secured to our gardens through this, as 

 in no other way. 



Among the newer vines is Vitis heterofhylla. If the reader 

 could see what 's in this name to those who know its meaning — 

 what glories of September color, what ease of cultivation of a 

 lovely climbing plant, they would leap at the mere mention of 

 this beautiful garden subject. My first sight of this ornamental 

 grape was in the garden of Mrs. W. A. Hutcheson, in that lovely 

 country around Bemardsyille, New Jersey, where a lightly built 

 arbor was hung with its fruiting stems. My second sight of it 

 was in the Arnold Arboretum, where Professor Sargent gathered 



